Good morning, my little cherubs. Sorry about the lack of a journal entry yesterday. Drivey home from New Yorky make Brendy sleepy all day.

It was an eventful weekend for your intrepid rock heroes. Saturday night was officially dubbed "reunion night." First, I reunited with members of the Captain Miles Band. You may remember them from the charity gig I played last year with Peter Wolf and John Henry. Wyc, the owner of the Celtics, is on drums. Ouch, I just hurt my big toe from dropping all those names on it.

This time around, the band consisted of a sleek, pared-down combo featuring the incredibly talented Jordan Siegel of Fooled By April fame on lead vocals. Jagoff Joe even made the trip down from Rochester, so it was a grand ol' time:



Aren't we sexy bitches? We played a party at a barn in Concord. And by "barn in Concord" I of course mean "a luxury structure much nicer than anything I will ever live in ever ever ever." Those folks in Concord sure know how to live. And Joe, Jordan and I sure know how to scam as much free food as humanly possible from them. It's at times like this weekend when I'm really glad I had that second stomach surgically added to the back of my left knee.

It wasn't just the barn that was way nicer than to which I'm accustomed. (Wow - the grammar of that last sentence CAN'T be correct. It just can't.) A few of the members of French Lick (that's the name of the band) have a few bucks, so the equipment we played with was pretty freakin' nice. Jordan was singing with in-ear vocal monitors (read about it in this month's issue of "Things That Are Completely Unnecessary" Magazine - EDIT: this was actually Joe's joke. Sorry for not crediting. I'm a jerkus.). As you can see from the above photo, there is a giant banner behind us with the "French Lick" logo which Wyc had designed by his staff. Lighting rigs, killer sound - it was just awesome.

Quite a contrast to the next night's gig... which I'll get to tomorrow. AW! Cliffhanger, bitches!

Speaking of "gigs" and "music," we've got one of them thar shows on Friday night! TT the Bear's Place in Central Square, Cambridge with our wife band Harris, our secret lover band Taxpayer and our jealous husband band Violet Nine. Be thar!

EDIT: I can't believe I forgot to mention this part of the story this morning - there was an impromptu semi-Fooled By April reunion. Pete was there as an audience member, so he got up and played a few songs on bass with French Lick while I rocked the tambourine. Then, I had the brainstorm to play some Fooled By April songs with me playing the role of Gordon. It was killer - a dream come true for me. Anyway, sorry I forgot to mention that - I'm still sleepy and old.